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…THE JEWISH NEWS 13 FRONT This Week's Top Stories Family To Fight Will CL Old wounds fuel an upcoming court battle over Irvin Abramson's will DAVID ZEMAN STAFF WRITER ne month after his death, nieces and nephews of millionaire Irvin Abram- son stand poised to con- test his will as revelations continue to unfold about his fractious family history. Mr. Abramson -- who had the look of a beggar and the fi- nancial holdings of a tycoon — died...…

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…May 10, 1996 OPINION Detroit They're Everywhere! A woman's first Mother's Day. 23 Two schools go to the Detroit Zoo to find examples of good deeds in the animal kingdom. TELL ME WHY That evil devil isn't Jewish. 34 Hitting Close To Home Ukrainians now living in Detroit observe only pain and suffering on Chernobyl's 10th anniversary. 40 ISRAEL The religious factions and Bibi. SPORTS Inside HeiboIlah Lions, Yom Kippur don't mix we...…

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…ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR Two synagogue schools go to the Detroit Zoo to find good deeds in the animal kingdom. GLENN TRIEST PHOTOGRAPHER ions and tigers and bears, oh my! But it was the opposite re- action that students at Con- gregations B'nai Moshe and - Shir Tikvah were looking for Sunday as they com- pleted a year-long study of mitzvot (good deeds) by visiting the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak and studying the care and feeding of the ani...…

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…• THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CIX 63® No. 11 Publisher Arthur M Horwitz ▪ Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Staff Writers Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Jill Davidson Sklar, David Zeman Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Yolles Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Corresp...…

…CUSTOM CABINETRY Death 101 4 t e Dr. Fred Rosner addresses Jewish medical ethics in relation to dying. —*AR tat LISA BRODY SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS '4441fIlitalIttirft If ndrew Zack of Huntington Woods was tired of hear- ing "the barrage of rhetoric from a purely secular point of view" on the topic of dying. Now he wanted to hear what Judaism had to say about it. So he, along with about 200 others, attended a talk on the sub- ject Mond...…

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…Left: Joan Simons, with Joanie Leider, Danielle Brodsky and Shayna Blase, finds this production enthralling. Above: Paula Lipnik and her son, Alex, enjoy a treat after the show. Right Mensch Mouse himself (aka Jay Winkler). Below: Coby Shecter makes his stage debut as Abraham. Mighty Mensch Mouse A little mouse learns the importance of caring for others. M ice could seen scurrying throughout the halls of Shaarey Zedek B'nai Is- rael in ...…

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…A Good Night's Sleep... • • • \ , /- Then she enrolled as a rabbinic student at JTS, graduating in May last year with a master's degree in Jewish education and her rabbinic ordination. She said she might have stayed in Israel for rabbinic school if its Conser- vative schools accepted female students. Rabbi Faudem is among the 80 or so women ordained at JTS since the seminary began or- daining women rabbis in 1985. She considers herself l...…

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…Editor's Notebook Community Views A Lesson On Mothering From Fleischman's Resident Nom The Bridge To Peace Under Reconstruction q PHIL JACOBS EDITOR 1 , - C,i30)104 Afi bent over and gave this lady a don't have around them. It's what they do have that counts." hug. Sunday is Mother's Day. Some As she walked away, the name "Carol," "Carol," was being called of Ms. Rosenberg's clients won't out by several other residents. It receive flo...…

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…Preschoolers Shabbat Event Congregation B'nai Moshe will offer another in its series of Shab- bat morning experiences for 3- and 4-year-olds and their families on Saturday, May 18, at 10:30 a.m. This family service, part of the congregation's new "Hava Nagila-Let's Be Happy" programming for families with very young children, will be short (30 to 45 minutes) and very in- formal. Puppetry and other Shabbat fun will be featured. Everyone is invi...…

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…INSIDE On Wednesday, New York Times correspondent Judith Miller's penetrating examination of mil- itant Islamic movements reached America's bookstores. By special per- mission with the publisher, we offer an excerpt from God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From A Militant Middle East, which postulates that just as there is no united Arab world, so, too, is there no unified Islam. For even within the Koran, God has 99 names. Ms. Miller, a cou...…

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…HethoIlah rj-) I_U Cr) LU CC F- LU LU 1 - - 48 "We have nothing against the American people," Mr. Musawi told me in Arabic. "But why does your government side with the Jews against the Muslims?" he said, flashing a sincerely mystified smile. "Why does it side with 5 million Jews rather than 300 million Arabs and more than a billion Muslims?" The Jews had a "black fu- ture," he said. The future be- longed to Muslims. So America should ...…

…Hezbollah Desecration, In The Name Of God Walking through the rubble of Lebanon's once glorious national museum is now like entering a funeral vault. L ebanon's National Museum, a vast neoclassical structure built in the monumental, fascistic style of the 1930s, had the misfortune to be situated on a hilltop that straddled a ma- jor highway dividing East, or Christian, Beirut from West, or Muslim, Beirut. Before the war, many neighborhoods...…

…Hezbollah Lebanese men during the war had become the talk of what was left of Beirut's intelligentsia. Mr. Khoury clearly rel- ished his role as intellec- tual agent provocateur. Slender, with heavy black glasses and thick black wavy hair, he looked like an intellectual. He would have been at home in Paris, where his play would soon be performed, or in New York, where he had taught for two years during the war. His office at An-Nahar was as c...…